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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... else comes in for Orientation next weekend.) I went back to my room and ... counting until I was out of Lobby 7, but I got 233. You know, in case you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  downs: I can think of semester after semester where I have struggled ... 't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much from them as I could before I started my own venture. Then on late

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... course, MIT. I can see where I am going, and I’m with nice company too ... slow down. But, in truth, I can’t help but feel like I’d do it all again

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  , where the food was delicious and you can watch as they make the naan and ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... buildings along the river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I don't feel like I'm living in some alternate reality where the ... , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... can’t hear very well, for some reason, and I feel like the physical ... . Where does it hurt? Primarily, I think I’ve lost my sense of conviction

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  — in some ways, beyond brain in a jar, where instead i am just ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  in general have also just strained. I feel like I can't talk to people ... going to wave to me in the hallways. I wonder where I'm uninvited to or ... considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how ... There have been so many times these past few weeks where I've wished ... promises can't shake off the sense that I've made some amazing friends and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  decisions. Wow I love that place. Spinach can be hidden in literally any ... ’ve spent the last two summers working in places where I didn’t speak the ... summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly content being nothing but a spectator. I think we can all agree when I say ... can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  registration, which can be a big pain. Notes for those driving in I've been ... curricula in Course VI (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); I know ... so close to Fenway that you can hear the PA system. I had a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  well. My trip to the Cape of Good Hope where I got to stand in one spot ... Zambia where I got to see Mosi-Oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls) in all its ... fact that I can not swim. I visited Soweto, the largest township in South

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  are so many people I want to keep in touch with, and I know I can see ... , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  ’m pretty sure I can breeze through this one” *Frantically googles ‘What is an ... the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite artiste in the first week of class (Jorja Smith😍), where we watch Shakira

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  years of involvement in Burton Conner government, I've seen how staunch administration seems in their decision to oust murals. I did, however, get a ... put back art is key in ensuring that dorm space can be utilized as much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of ... redemption, where I could forge my titanium spine and emerge as the LinkedIn ... be quick to support others however I can.  In-between all that, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025